How to Use Ku Klux Klan in a Sentence

Ku Klux Klan

noun

• Most were passed to fight back against the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
• The founders of the modern Ku Klux Klan first set fire to a cross on that very rock.
  — Andre Henry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• In 1928, the second-place winner in one of the races was a horse named Ku Klux Klan.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Ku Klux Klan was all around, as were his mother’s warnings about how to stay safe.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The rebel flag has been used by Ku Klux Klan groups and is widely condemned as racist.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• The photo on Northam's yearbook page shows two men, one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood.
  — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The vandalism, church officials said, harked back to threats made against Black churches in the 1800s by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Keith L. Alexander and Rachel Weiner, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• The law under which he was charged was originally passed to combat the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
• They were arrested by a deputy sheriff, who was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Inside, members of the local Ku Klux Klan were waiting.
  — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• But the dunce cap becomes more sinister when compared to the row of clothes hanging across from it: children-sized Ku Klux Klan robes.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Fergusons funded public education and stood up to the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• When the Ku Klux Klan are marching down the street, unmasked, one of them is a town leader and Leo’s character casually says hello.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
• My wife’s maternal grandfather was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• The design reminded some of the hoods worn by the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, which was founded in 1866 and had a resurgence during the civil rights movement.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
• Cross burnings were tools for intimidation by the racist anti-Black terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, throughout the 1900s.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
• In addition, its history is inextricably linked to the rise of the modern Ku Klux Klan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• And beginning in the 1920s, the region became a hot spot for Ku Klux Klan gatherings, including cross burnings in its larger towns.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• There were members of the Ku Klux Klan holding statewide elective office and using the rhetoric of white supremacy to incite violence and suppress Black voter turnout.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Three Ku Klux Klan members were convicted in Liuzzo’s death.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 29 Sep. 2023
• The film shows political cartoons portraying him as a Ku Klux Klan member and showing him shining Scalia’s shoes.
  — Shawn Boburg, Emma Brown, Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• The jury failed to reach a verdict in the case — the first test of a new state law meant to ban Ku Klux Klan cross burnings — though it is expected to return to court this summer for additional proceedings.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• This was the weekly newspaper of the local Ku Klux Klan, which printed a mix of national and local stories to promote the organization’s views and events.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
• The tweet included a racist photo that appeared on Northam's medical school yearbook page decades ago showing a person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan costume.
  — Luis Andres Henao and Sarah Rankin, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• This is not her first time visiting this bridge, which is named after a Ku Klux Klan leader and was the site where civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by law enforcement officers.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• The design reminded some of the hoods worn by the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group that was founded in 1866 and had a resurgence during the civil rights movement, according to Britannica.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2024
• He was severely beaten while monitoring a Ku Klux Klan rally.
  — Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Post story described incidents such as lynching threats and a white professor reminiscing in class about her father’s Ku Klux Klan membership.
  — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2020
• The court struck down an Oregon law pushed by the Ku Klux Klan and other nativists that explicitly excluded private schools from the state’s compulsory education law.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024
• Doc Roberts’ halting gait easily gives him away during marches with the local Ku Klux Klan, his disguises notwithstanding.
  — Hawa Allan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024